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About our Faculty
The Faculty of Humanities offers an inspiring international working environment with room for diversity and innovation to staff and students from home and abroad.
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- Volume 2 (2007)
- Volume 10 (2015)
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Seminars
LCN2 hosts seminars on the last Friday of each month.
- Leiden University Gender Equality Plan 2021
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Programme structure
The core curriculum equips students with the conceptual approaches and qualitative empirical research methods necessary to analyze law in context. Specialized electives enable students to dive deeper and focus on particular areas of legal practice—from legal mobilization to regulation and compliance…
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Young people and children and the counter-smuggling project
Lecture
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The Dutch Transatlantic Slave Trade
Conference, Book presentation
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
Study information
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LED3 & LUCID Drug Discovery Meeting
Conference
- Histories Connected
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Diversity and Functional Potential of the Sorghum Root Microbiome to Control Striga hermonthica
PhD defence
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Book presentation: Shifting sovereignties — Manifestations of sovereignty from a global historical perspective
Lecture, Book presentation
- What's New?! Fall Lecture Series 2023
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
Study information
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Usutu too? Insights into vaccine development strategies for an emerging orthoflavivirus
PhD defence
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State’s obligations on Climate Change. A Latin American Perspective
Debate, Panel and public discussion
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Student for a day English Language and Culture (full)
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
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Student for a day English Language and Culture
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Innovating and connecting
447th Dies Natalis
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Dies natalis 2021
University ceremony
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The future of the past is enough to make you feel down
The slogan of the Faculty of Archaeology, ‘The Future of the Past starts at Leiden University’, might sound like empty marketing speak. But there is something to it. The past can teach us a lot about climate change and that could make us fear the worst for our future. Archaeologist Gerrit Dusseldorp…
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How students incorporate sustainability in their master thesis
Many students are finishing their master thesis on sustainability this summer. In this blog, we reflect on their topics, approaches, and goals by highlighting theses from Governance of Sustainability, European Law, Global Archaeology, Computer Science: Artificial Intelligence, Industrial Ecology, and…
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This was 2023! An overview of Humanities in the news
So much has happened this year! 2023 was an eventful year in which several wars raged about which our experts could offer interpretation. It was also the year in which the government made apologies for the slavery past. Leiden humanities scholars were at the forefront of this with their research on…
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Animated video in Dutch about corona specially for children
A Dutch-language video shows children their new life during the corona crisis and gives them some guidelines to help them feel less worried. The short animated video was made by two German researchers with whom child psychologists Anke Klein and Annelieke Hagen are working. ‘With our translation, this…
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How can we tell the story of multivocal the Netherlands?
At a time when statues of figures from history have an uncertain future Valika Smeulders has just become Head of History at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum. What changes does she want to make? And how does she look back on her Languages and Cultures of Latin America degree programme in Leiden?
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Call for Contributions: Third conference of the Law and Development Research Network
From 19 to 21 September 2018 the third annual conference of the Law and Development Research Network (LDRN) will take place at Leiden University. The theme of the conference will be 'Interfaces'.
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Successful second annual conference of the Leiden Center for East African Law at the EAC headquarters in Arusha
On the 5th of May 2016, the second annual conference of the Leiden Center for East African Law (LEAC) took place at the East African Community headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania. The Conference was organized on the occasion of Europe Day with the generous support of the EAC, the EU delegation to EAC and…
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Life sentence for Mladić: mission accomplished?
The court has dismissed Ratko Mladić’s appeal and upheld his life sentence for genocide and war crimes. The verdict is one of Yugoslavia tribunal’s last. Mission accomplished?
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Two Leiden MOOCs in New York Magazine’s Top 21
‘Heritage Under Threat’ and ‘The Rooseveltian Century’ are among the 21 best MOOCs for a general public according to New York Magazine.
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Central Crisis Team: ‘It sometimes comes down to the last second’
It’s the middle of the academic year, but most of the University buildings are closed – something that hasn’t happened since the Second World War. Fortunately, after a week of intensive preparations, the teaching has moved online. How is the Central Crisis Team steering the University through the corona…
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The archaeology of face masks: ‘Face masks layers will be a huge help for future archaeologists’
From one year to the next, face masks have started to appear in the environment. As the masks are discarded, they end up in the top soil, in sediment layers, and in refuse heaps. In a couple of generations archaeologists will study the layer that has already been labeled the Face Mask Horizon. Current…
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Ten Leiden researchers awarded ERC Starting Grants
Ten scientists from Leiden University will receive a Starting Grant from the European Research Council. This will allow them to launch their own project, form their own research team and implement their best ideas.
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Introducing: Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali & Felipe Colla de Amorim
Yusra Abdullahi, Maha Ali and Felipe Colla de Amorim recently joined the Institute for History as PhD candidates. Together they work an an integrated, collective project. Learn more about them below!
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New professor Elise Dusseldorp: ‘The longer you’re in research, the more humble you become’
Elise Dusseldorp has been appointed Professor in the Methodology and Statistics of Psychological Research. In the same way that she spends her spare time rambling through the forest, as a professor she sifts through colleagues’ research data. ‘I often come across information that doesn’t appear in the…
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The operations of multinational businesses in conflict areas - towards a conceptual operational framework, the LEIDEN Protocol
Conference
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Tailoring medicines for the genetically diverse African populations
Lecture, Tuesday Talks: Science Insights
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IBL Spotlight - Tinde van Andel and Anagnostis Theodoropoulos
Lecture
- Where is the Caribbean in the Dutch WPS National Action Plan?
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African methodologies in academic research
Lecture
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Quietly Otherwise: Atmospheres of Sharing in Unusual Ik Families
Lecture, Research Seminar
- Annual Medieval Middle East Meeting 2024
- COGLOSS seminars 2024-2025
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Experience Day English Language and Culture
Study information
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Opening public lectures Lorentz Center
Lecture
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CANCELLED: Equality of Access Requires Equity in Design: Rethinking Open Science Infrastructures
Seminar
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Interfaculty Lunch: Internationalisation in the Age of De-Internationalisation
Interfaculty lunch
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Historicizing Security. Enemies of the State, 1813 until present
The research project ‘The History of National Security, 1945-present', is funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), the Campus The Hague/Leiden University and the Netherlands Institute for Military History (NIMH). The project will run until the summer of 2013, when we hope…